Before Summit Avenue became a magnet for the state’s empire builders, St. Paul’s elite built their...
Twin Cities Area
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to an Opulent...
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The McKnight’s Park Avenue mansion was completed in 1892 for a total cost of nearly $36,000...
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Robbinsdale Library
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Gates of Stonebridge
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
The Swinford Apartments
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
District #28 School in Ramsey
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Wilder Public Baths
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
State Theater In Hutchinson
The State Theater in Hutchinson, Minnesota, opened its doors on December 28, 1937. Customers paid...
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Settled in 1854 by Pennsylvania native Benjamin Spencer, Spencer Brook was one of the first...
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Cobden
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Lost Highway 61
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Old Brewery In Preston
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Red Wing Iron Works
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Visiting Golden Gate
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Munger Terrace In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Historic Wasioja
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Exploring Ottawa
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Historic Franconia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
District 6 School in New Sweden
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
The Almelund Creamery
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Le Sueur Theater
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Welcome To Dotson
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Little Falls Depot
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Hollywood Town Hall
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Oxford Mill Ruin
Moderne New Ulm Library
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
District 48 School Near Delano
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hanover Bridge
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The End of the Line in Currie
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Endion Depot In Duluth
Florence Town Hall
Endion School In Duluth
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Exploring Sandstone
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Church of the Holy Cross
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
The Duluth Homestead Project
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Little Marais Inn
Welcome To Old Wadena
Enter Marlon Brando
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Welcome to Hanska
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Green Lake Mounds
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Dead Good Walks
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Burials at the cemetery in Frontenac date from the mid-1860s and include some of the town’s...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
I visited the grounds of the Rochester State Hospital back in 2014. I knew the beautiful Kirkbride...
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...

